Serializing a Scala List to JSON in Play2

Question

I am trying to deserialize a list of Scala objects to a JSON map in Play2 - a pretty trivial use case with JSON, I\'d say. My JSON output would be something along the lines

Answer 1

scala> import play.api.libs.json._
import play.api.libs.json._

scala> case class User(name: String, age: Int)
defined class User

scala> implicit val userFormat = Json.format[User]
userFormat: play.api.libs.json.OFormat[User] = play.api.libs.json.OFormat$$anon$1@38d2c662

scala> val userList = List(User("Example 1", 20), User("Example 2", 42))
userList: List[User] = List(User(Example 1,20), User(Example 2,42))

scala> val users = Json.obj("users" -> userList)
users: play.api.libs.json.JsObject = {"users":[{"name":"Example 1","age":20},{"name":"Example 2","age":42}]}